Re: Spotify Skin Gallery

Ok looks pretty much the same as mine, guess it's really in the detail then.

I must admit, I don't use Photoshop but a freeware program to change the icons.

This light version I've made was kinda tricky because I had to change the sidebar icons from light to dark and vice versa when they are highlighted. There are a lot of them and maybe I didn't put up the time to make it perfect for everyone. Thought it's good enough, but of course if you look closer you might see it's not a pro's work. ;) Also some icons can not be changed because they are web-based (e.g. radio/what's new icon), same like the artist/album/search page.

Another thing that might look "blurry" is the font, because I'm using shadows there. I've tried without shadows but it just looked too sharp - simply unnatural.

However if you want to perfect the skin you can always have a look at the download folder, there's a description on what I've changed + the changed bitmaps, including every changed icon. Maybe you can make those sharper then! :)

Re: Spotify Skin Gallery

Hmm. I really wish I had a career in graphic design, but unfortunately I build Excel models all day, so that's my specialty. I think maybe the shadows are what did it. Fonts are really important these days, and getting it right is a tough task. Maybe someday Spotify will let us customize these skins, similar to a product like Gmail.

I am with Idanne, who'd said that your dark theme is "too dark," and we just want the regular dark gray theme back. ;-) Are you working on something, or as you mentioned earlier, it is now impossible?

Another question. I've been using a dark-gray theme for my Windows UI since ... years ago (it merges very perfectly with the dark gray Spotify theme). I use Windows 7 Professional 64-bit as well. Is it possible / can you allow the main frame of Spotify to adapt the "Aero" Win7 look? (So I can see my custom Windows skin in place of the "iTunes" gray/brushed-metal look).

Re: Spotify Skin Gallery

Another question. I've been using a dark-gray theme for my Windows UI since ... years ago (it merges very perfectly with the dark gray Spotify theme). I use Windows 7 Professional 64-bit as well. Is it possible / can you allow the main frame of Spotify to adapt the "Aero" Win7 look? (So I can see my custom Windows skin in place of the "iTunes" gray/brushed-metal look).

Re: Spotify Skin Gallery

If I knew how to change the white artist/album pages in the new version, I would of course provide a normal grey version too because that's what most people want. However it is not possible since those elements are web-based. I'm still trying to figure out a way (any help appreciated) but so far sadly to no avail.

About the aero design. I know what you mean but that is also not possible.

With this method here I'm just changing some bitmaps and color codes. Adding an aero frame would be altering the actual program - which I'm not sure if it's even legal to post it then, besides the fact that I got no idea how that would work. I'm not a programmer. ;P

Re: Spotify Skin Gallery

Dude you freaking rock bro! The spotify team should look into hiring you and add skins to the awsome player they got. Do any of the skins work with the latest version? I have version 0.9.6.72.ge389c074 so i downloaded the versions the skins are for and I keep getting this message even after following the steps addBitmap(MainlistRowExpandBg_upper,<NULL>) fail

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